Aljaksandr Sauko

Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
	Аляксандр Саўко
Łacinka :	Alaksandr Saŭko
Transl. :	Alyaksandr Saŭko
Transcr. :	Aljaksandr Sauko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Александр Савко
Transl .:	Aleksandr Savko
Transcr .:	Alexander Sawko

Aljaksandr Sauko (or Sauka ; born January 9, 1967 ) is a former Belarusian wrestler .

Career

Aljaksandr Sauko started wrestling at the age of seven. He became a member of a wrestling club in Hrodna and developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler with coach Uladsimir Warankou. With a height of only 1.67 m, he started in the middleweight division and weighed around 85 kg. As a stocky, extremely powerful guy, he was very difficult to wrestle. As a junior, he had some notable successes. In 1986 he won a junior world cup tournament in the Canadian St. John’s middleweight division and in 1987 he became junior middleweight world champion in Burnaby .

Aljaksandr Sauko had to wait until 1993 because of the extremely strong competition in what was then the Soviet Union before he was used at an international championship in the seniors . He was only able to start for this country when Belarus had become independent.

At the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul , he threw the German champion Hans Gstöttner from Halle out of the race and won the bronze medal in the middleweight division. At the World Championships in Toronto in the same year, Alexander won again in the first round over Hans Gstöttner, but had to retire after a defeat in the second round.

At the European Championships in Rome in 1994 , Sauko met Hans Gstöttner for the third time in the battle for the bronze medal and this time had to admit defeat to him with 1: 3 points and be satisfied with 4th place.

After this European championship, Aljaksandr Sauko did not win any medals at international championships. The best result he still achieved was 6th place at the 1996 European Championships in Budapest . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta he lost to Leslie Gutches from the USA and Mogamed Ibragimov from Azerbaijan and was eliminated after the 2nd round.

After 1996, Aljaksandr Sauko turned to submission wrestling , which is fought until the decision. He fought for the Abu Dhabi Combat Club .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Wed = middleweight, then up to 82 kg body weight)

• 1986, 1st place , Junior World Cup tournament in St. John's / Canada , F, Wed, ahead of David Lee, USA , Angel Anoya, Cuba and Alf Wurr, Canada;
• 1987, 1st place , Junior World Championships in Burnaby / Canada, F, Wed, ahead of Hiroaki Takagi, Japan , Krassimir Marinow, Bulgaria and Stefan Wagner, FRG ;
• 1988, 1st place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul , F, Wed, ahead of Necmi Gençalp , Turkey and Andrzej Radomski , Poland ;
• 1989, 2nd place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul , F, Wed, behind Kevin Jackson , USA and in front of Erol Yıldırım, Turkey ;
• 1990, 1st place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul, F, Wed, before Józef Niemic , Poland and Rocabi Kloumars, Iran ;
• 1991, 2nd place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul, F, Wed, behind Mehmet Turkaya, Turkey and in front of Wesselin Sabaew, Bulgaria;
• 1993, 1st place , "Alexander Medwed" tournament in Minsk , F, Wed, ahead of Ruslam Chinyakov, Uzbekistan , Maik van Arsdale, USA, Jondo Modossian, Georgia and Gari Modossian, Russia ;
• 1993, 3rd place , EM in Istanbul , F, Wed, behind Rustem Kelechsajew , Russia and Sebahattin Öztürk , Turkey and in front of Nicolae Ghiţă , Romania , Dawit Churtia, Georgia and Alcide Legrand, France ;
• 1993, 11th place , World Cup in Toronto , F, Wed, winner: Sebahattin Öztürk ahead of Saygid Katinovasov , Russia, Ruslam Kinchagov , Uzbekistan and Kevin Jackson , USA;
• 1994, 4th place , European Championship in Rome , F, Wed, behind Rustem Kelechsajew, Lukman Schabrailow , Moldova and Hans Gstöttner , Germany and in front of László Dvorák, Hungary and Robert Eggertswyler, Switzerland ;
• 1994, 9th place , World Championship in Istanbul , F, Wed, winner Lukman Schabrailow ahead of Sebahattin Öztürk and Hans Gstöttner;
• 1995, 7th place , EM in Freiburg im Üechtland , F, Wed, winner Mogamed Ibragimov , Azerbaijan ahead of Serhij Gubrinjuk , Ukraine and Rassul Katinowassow;
• 1995, 28th place , World Championships in Atlanta , F, Wed, winner: Kevin Jackson ahead of Elmadi Schabrailow , Russia and Ruslam Kinchagov;
• 1996, 6th place , EM in Budapest , F, Wed, behind Mogamed Ibragimov, László Dvorák, Chadschimurad Magomedow , Russia, Plamen Penew, Bulgaria and Serhij Gubrinjuk;
• 1996, 19th place , OS in Atlanta, F, Wed, winner: Chadschimurad Magomedow ahead of Yang Hyun-mo , South Korea and Amir Reza Khadem , Iran

swell

• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 03/93, 05/93, 09/93, 04/94, 09/94, 05/95, 09/95, 04/96 and 09/96